Course Availability

Overview

MDDE 618: Instructional Project Management introduces the general project management competencies for those individuals in the development and production of educational projects. The course explores the current and future climate of the distance education and learning industry and formulats strategies to respond to that climate. Students will develop an awareness of the issues faced by distance education organizations, the challenges of selecting appropriate learning technologies, and the relative costs of delivery.

Course Goals

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to manage an educational project from inception to completion. Specifically, the course will:

Introduce the process required to launch a successful project;

Initiate students to a variety of team-building skills;

Provide an overview of the project management phases;

Teach the basic skills associated with each element of the project management cycle;

Provide the opportunity to practice and apply those skills.

Course Outline

The course is composed of six units:

Unit 1: Introduction to Project Management

Unit 2: Team Building

Unit 3: Initiation

Unit 4: Planning

Unit 5: Execution

Unit 6: Completion

Learning Resources

All course resources are online via Moodle.

Student Assessment

Students will be graded on the basis of four assignments and course participation. Assignments aredesigned to provide students with the opportunity to apply what they have learned to a specific case. The assignments are centered on the four major phases of a project life cycle. Assignments build upon one another; as one is completed, students are expected to make modifications based on the feedback and then build their next assignment onto the previous one.

Activity

Credit Weight

Assignment 1: Students will provide, define and describe an educational project.

25%

Assignment 2: Students will continue to work in the first assignment and produce a plan for managing the project described project.

30%

Assignment 3: Students will describe the processes for managing the project execution.

25%

Assignment 4: Students will complete a Key Questions Matrix. At the end of each unit students will compose two key questions a project manager must be able to answer.

10%

Course Participation: Students are expected to participate in the discussion forums.

10%

Total

100%

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.